Landing / Taxi Lights not visible at dawn & dusk. P3Dv3.4

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Landing / Taxi Lights not visible at dawn & dusk. P3Dv3.4

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I am running P3d 3.4 and the latest version on 172 and just ran the updater last evening. I am using the A2A custom lights during the install. Landing lights illuminate ground is checked in P3D setting. Running Nvidia 1080GTX with newest drivers.

I fired up the 172 at LOWI at night and the landing and taxi lights light up the runway in front of me beautifully. When I switch to dawn or dusk ( and it is almost as dark as at night) the lights are not illuminating the ground properly and it makes it near impossible to taxi around.

As an experiment, I used the time preview from night to dawn and watch as the landing and taxi lights completely dimmed out before there was enough light to wash them out in the real world.

Is there a setting available or parameter that can be adjusted to bring up the lights brighter during the these times?

Thanks in advance for your assistance.
Daniel

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Hello Daniel,

was you re-loading the sim or using time preview only as the time preview wont reload your aircraft correctly so the lights wont load correctly.

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Re: Landing / Taxi Lights not visible at dawn & dusk. P3Dv3.

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Lewis - A2A wrote:Hello Daniel,

was you re-loading the sim or using time preview only as the time preview wont reload your aircraft correctly so the lights wont load correctly.

thanks,
Lewis
Hello Lewis -

I was running the sim normally when I noticed that the dawn/dusk lights were not illuminating the ground. I set up a flight normally and under "time and season" I chose dusk. The lights were not on the ground illuminating it. I went back in and chose "night" and the lights illuminated the ground well.

Only after I did all this and checked my setting, I did the "time preview" experiment, starting at night time and watched as the ground lights dimmed out prematurely before there was enough day light during the dawn and dusk phases.

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This might be one of the limitations, what time of year and where about's where you flying, as it is time dependant so the time of year and location could have an affect.

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Re: Landing / Taxi Lights not visible at dawn & dusk. P3Dv3.

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Lewis - A2A wrote:This might be one of the limitations, what time of year and where about's where you flying, as it is time dependant so the time of year and location could have an affect.

thanks,
Lewis
Yes, there is a small variation in ground lighting depending on location and weather. Is there anyway to effect the lighting transition during those period to brighten it up?

thanks again!

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Hello,

there's no way to change this i'm afraid. I'd be interested to hear where you are flying though as since 2013 v1.0 release no one else has reported any issues

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Re: Landing / Taxi Lights not visible at dawn & dusk. P3Dv3.

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Lewis - A2A wrote:Hello,

there's no way to change this i'm afraid. I'd be interested to hear where you are flying though as since 2013 v1.0 release no one else has reported any issues

thanks,
Lewis
Hello Lewis - I have been using Orbx's LOWI scenery. I also just realized that I am using the PTA - Prepar3D Tweak Assist. PTA updates the lighting and shaders, could there be a parameter in that in which is causing what I am seeing (or not seeing :)

Thanks again for the great support!

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dandimm wrote:PTA updates the lighting and shaders, could there be a parameter in that in which is causing what I am seeing (or not seeing :)
Servus :-)

You might wanna ask Matt Davies directly.


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Re: Landing / Taxi Lights not visible at dawn & dusk. P3Dv3.

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Hello,

I would not think so, but to be honest I cant say for sure. So yes I would ask Matt and the PTA guys in case they can shed any light (pardon the amazing pun :mrgreen: ) on this issue you have encountered.

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Re: Landing / Taxi Lights not visible at dawn & dusk. P3Dv3.

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Lewis - A2A wrote:Hello,

I would not think so, but to be honest I cant say for sure. So yes I would ask Matt and the PTA guys in case they can shed any light (pardon the amazing pun :mrgreen: ) on this issue you have encountered.

thanks,
Lewis
Thanks for all the help! I'll check over at the PTA forum to see if a setting existing.

Best Regards,
Daniel

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